Health Canada says stronger warnings about the risk of suicidal thoughts and behaviours are being added to prescribing information for all drugs used to manage attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD.

Ebola has taken its greatest toll on babies. About 90 per cent of children under age 1 who caught the virus in West Africa died from it, the first large study of the epidemic's impact on children suggests.

When Angelina Jolie revealed two years ago that she'd had a double mastectomy to prevent hereditary breast cancer, there was a huge jump in the number of women seeking testing for the genetic mutation that put the actress at risk.

A national pharmaceuticals strategy officially died last year with the expiry of the Canada Health Accord. But a new study makes a compelling case for a universal nationwide pharmacare plan. And it may prompt Canadians to take another look.

It now sounds almost cliche to call the West African Ebola epidemic unprecedented. But nothing remotely like this outbreak has ever happened with this disease. Only science fiction writers contemplated Ebola on this scale.

Dr. Angelo Volandes remembers performing rib-cracking CPR on a frail elderly man dying of lung cancer, a vivid example of an end-of-life dilemma: Because his patient never said if he wanted aggressive care as his body shut down, the hospital had to try. He died days later.